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===FIBIS on Google Books===
FIBIS has a Google Books library with books on topics related to its aims. You can search within the books in the library, a useful technique for eliminating results unrelated to historical British India topics. The library is currently still growing.
*View the [http://www.google.com/books?hl=en&uid=4345922024743697884 FIBIS Google Books Library]
You can search within the books in the library, a useful technique for eliminating results unrelated to historical British India topics.
The FIBIS Webmaster advised (April 2012): "Placing a search term within speech marks asks the search engine to look for exact matches. If there are no exact matches it appears that the library produces results as if you hadn't searched for an exact match. If there are exact matches then only the exact matches are shown. I experimented with searching for "Samuel Smith" and only exact matches were shown, but searching for "Collett Smith" produced hits only for Collett and Smith separately as there were no exact matches". As Google Books frequently changes its website, this may change from time to time.
===Copying Information from Full View Google Books===
The following is the situation at April 2012 but could change from time to time as Google Books frequently changes its webpages <br>
The following is not available if the book is labelled 'Limited View' or 'Snippet View' or 'No Preview'.<br>
When you are reading a Full View book you can click:
*”Plain Text” to copy the text to a Word or similar document. This heading is hidden under a circular icon at the top right hand side of the page. What you copy will not be fully accurate, so you will need to check your copy against the original wording.*”Clip” Click once on the scissors icon as a first step to copying a part of the actual page. A small blue rectangle should appear around The icon from the word clipmouse connection then appears as a cross. Next left click on your mouse and draw a rectangle around the paragraph you require. Click within the paragraph which should then become blue. Then copy the link which appears under “Image” and paste in a document. You can subsequently use this link to view the paragraph you have saved. You can also use programs such as Powerpoint to make a slide of the paragraph you have clipped.
===Expanding a Google Books Snippet view search result===
